Happy birthday Tiffany!

Tiffany at Tiffany Doodles celebrated her birthday two weeks ago (I'm a bit late) and this cake slice was one of the freebies that she generously gave away. I wanted to wish her a very happy (belated) birthday and I do hope that she had lots of fun enjoying it with friends and family.

I wanted to go for a simple card but with a girly style to it. Thus, I have used my Deco Fans Shell Punch around the page set from Martha Stewart to do the borders. I also machine stitched the ribbon from my stash onto the card and stamped the sentiment using the Memento Black ink pad. Furthermore, I have used my glitter pens to create some sprinkles on the cake. Hope you will like it Tiffany!!!

Challenges:

Crafts and me Challenges - Anything goes 

Divas by Design #45 - Happy Birthday

Fab N funky Challenges 131 - No stamped images

Inky Impressions Challenges - Dies or punches

Paper Pretties Challenge PWC216 - Birthday Cards

Simon Says Stamps - Anything goes

Waste not Wednesdays wk 27 - Something unused (My martha punch!)

Remember

This card was made for my overseas friend, whom I miss so much. She is one of my best friends in the whole world!!! I haven't seen her in the past 5 years but we do skype from time to time when time permits. Hopefully, one day I can go back or vice-versa and we can meet again for real! In honour of our great friendship, this is for you my dear.

I embossed the beige cardstock and matted it over a brown one. I added some self-adhesived diamond for some bling. The image was colored with copics and prismacolored pencils. Some red stickles was added to the dress and bonets. I have used my paper piercer for around the card, used my black pen to give some accent to the border and on the patterned paper. I have also added some butterfly by punching with the Maped butterfly punch (something that I don't use very very often) and added some antennas onto them. The sentiment is from the October Afternoon stamp set.

All That Scraps and Marianne's Design Divas are having a DT call and so, let's cross my fingers. I have never been on a DT team before. I am still learning the odds and ends of cardmaking though and each time, there is something new to learn. It never ends :-)

Here is a close up of the image with the embossed background and bling.

Supplies

Cardstock: Recollections, Martha Stewart
Papers: K & Company
Stamps: Kratin' Kimmie Natsuko Stamp, October Afternoon
Ink: Distress Ink
Accessories: Paisley Embossing folder, Cuttlebug, Paper piercer, Martha Stewart black pen, mulberry flowers, Maped butterfly punch.

Challenges:

All That Scraps Blog - DT Call & Anything goes
The Cupcake craftroom - Layers
Lia Stampz 21 - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - It's all about circles
Use it Tuesday - Challenge #35: Emboss It!
Marianne's Design Divas - One year challenge and DT Call
Mema's Crafts - Anything goes
Crazy Amigo Challenge- Free theme
Jackson's Digital Expressions - Anything goes
Papertake Weekly - All things girlie

Stamp N Plus - Anything goes

LEJ Designs - Anything goes

Happy 2nd Birthday Sophie

It's been a while since I was in blogland. The reason being I was feeling blue, feeling like I did not know where to go, what to do, like I was feeling lost. I had to keep things going on around the house but I just di dnot feel my creativite juices flowing. I was cleaning up the craft room too together with my DD and mom but there was so much mess that it was impossible for me to craft! I'm a BIG procrastinator too...there, I said it!!! I so wish after doing this card, I will get back into the mojo of things. I have missed blogland...really...OH so much!

Sophie's 2nd birthday made me come out of my procrastination. She will be 2 this Friday and of course, I couldn't let my niece go without a card for her sweet birthday...

Here it is:

I have embossed the birthday cake first and then paper pieced with some scraps. I stamped the sentiment on the ribbon itself by using black Memento Ink. The pearls were colored using R32 and glued using glue dots.The cake was then glued with pop dots and given some dimension.

The number 2 is from K&CO chipboard and then, a sheep button was stitched. Everything was then glued using glue dots and double sided glue. I have used the Clean & Simple sketch #198.

 

A close up of the sheep and the birthday cake

I will enter this card in the folowing:

Clean & Simple #198 - Sketch

Lawn Fawn - Dimension 

Cas-ual Fridays CFC60- Text in design

The 2012 Great Canadian Blog Bash

This Canadian bash has been around for a while and It's my first time participating in it.

I love Canada because it's my children native country. I came from an exotic island called Mauritius and I settled here because of my husband. Of course, I love the snow, the people, the diverse cultures and the maple syrup! Can't miss that!!!
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Yay for Ice Cream sundaes

Hello everyone! Im glad to be back in blogland. I have been MIA the past few weeks because I have been cleaning up my craft room and also, my allergies are acting up! My craft room is halfway there and I can see all my ribbons in one place, thanks to the help of mum and my DD. Enough chit chatting and let's back to business shall we?

Here's my finished card, a very simple one.

The image from Doodle Pantry was printed on Neenah Cardstock and colored with prismacolor pencils. It was then glued to the cardstock from Recollections. Alphas from Colorbok and some yello twine were added to the left.

This card will be entered in the following:

Doodle Pantry - Use a doodle pantry image

You're on my mind

This birthday card is for my friend who LOVES ice-cream!!! I have used the sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday (see right) used the image from Pattie's Creations.  I am entering this card in the last progressive challenge over at CDAC where the theme was "Summer's Sizzles" and Pattie's Creations where I have used gems, glitter, ribbon and sentiments.

The sentiments are from Create with TLC and Stampin' Up. I have repeated the image 3 times and flipped the sketch, colored the ice creams with prismacolors and use dmy Swiss dots folder for the background.

Close up to see the glitter and gems

My Hero

The inside

Hope everyone had a great memorial weekend and I have been off from blogger for a while. My family and myself went to NYC & Montreal the previous weekend. We drove to there and of course, we were all pooped out especially the little ones. But now, I'm back to blogland and hopefully, I'll be able to catch up...

For today, I started with the Mojo Monday 243

To get into the spirit of things, I made this patriotic card using Meljens "Patriotic Bear" using red, blues, and white with a bit of sparkle and shine and the "My Hero" badge is from Create with TLC.

Challenges:

Meljens Designs: Challenge is Glitter, Shimmer and Shine. Hope you are able to see the glitter on the stars of the hat and on the "My Hero" badge.
Kaboodle Doodles: Challenge is Dress for Success. Isn't this bear ready for success?
Craft Your Days Away: Challenge is Red, White, and Blue
Charizma Cards - No flowers
Papercraft Bliss - Anything for kids goes
Do it with digis Challenge - Inspiration photo
Paper Shelter - Bling it on